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Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 November 1989. [1] The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis emerged as the largest party in Parliament, defeating PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, as in June 1989, Mitsotakis was unable to form a government since his party had failed to win a majority of seats.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| New Democracy | 3,093,055 | 46.19 | 148 | +3 | |
| PASOK | 2,723,739 | 40.67 | 128 | +3 | |
| Synaspismos | 734,552 | 10.97 | 21 | –7 | |
| Alternative Ecologists | 39,130 | 0.58 | 1 | New | |
| Trust | 26,012 | 0.39 | 1 | 0 | |
| Left Initiative of Communist Radical Ecologists (AKOA–EKKE) | 13,461 | 0.20 | 0 | New | |
| Kollatos–Independent Political Movement–Ecologic–Hellenic | 13,058 | 0.19 | 0 | New | |
| Fate | 10,971 | 0.16 | 1 | +1 | |
| Ecologists of Greece | 10,223 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
| Liberal Party | 5,125 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
| Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups | 4,410 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) | 3,188 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fighting Socialist Party of Greece | 1,602 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece | 1,422 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Labour Anti-Imperialistic Front | 1,384 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Self-Governed Movement of Labour Politics | 1,259 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Workers Revolutionary Party – Trotskyists | 1,104 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Olympic Party | 840 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece | 614 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Front of National Fighters | 99 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Independent Party of Democratic Revival | 61 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Hellenists Party | 53 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Greens Ecological Party of Greece–Hellenic Alternative Green Movement | 46 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Olympic Democracy | 32 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary-Popular Executive Committee "Care" | 22 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Independent Social Democratic Revival | 21 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Humanism and Peace Party | 15 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Regional Civic Development | 12 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Hellenic Social Democratic Revolutionary Liberation Front "Spartacus" | 9 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Movement of Non-Privileged | 4 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Hellenic European Party | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Self-Respect | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Hellenic European Party 1984 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 11,563 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 6,697,092 | 100.00 | 300 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 6,697,092 | 98.50 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 101,917 | 1.50 | |||
| Total votes | 6,799,009 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,425,212 | 80.70 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
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